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    <center>M2SCI function</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : 07/04/2004</div>
    <p>
      <b>mtlb_false</b> - Matlab false emulation function</p>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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    <p>There is no Scilab equivalent for Matlab <tt>
        <b>false</b>
      </tt>. However, Scilab <tt>
        <b>zeros</b>
      </tt>
    returns a result interpreted in an equivalent way for Scilab.</p>
    <p>Matlab <tt>
        <b>false</b>
      </tt> and Scilab <tt>
        <b>zeros</b>
      </tt> behave differently in some particular cases:</p>
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        With a scalar input: Matlab <tt>
              <b>false</b>
            </tt> returns a n x n matrix of zeros
	while Scilab <tt>
              <b>zeros</b>
            </tt> returns a 0.
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    <p>
    The function <tt>
        <b>mtlb_false(A)</b>
      </tt> is used by
    <tt>
        <b>mfile2sci</b>
      </tt> to replace <tt>
        <b>false(A)</b>
      </tt> when it was not
    possible to know what was the input while porting Matlab code to Scilab. This function will
    determine the correct semantic at run time. If you want to have a
    more efficient code it is possible to replace <tt>
        <b>mtlb_false</b>
      </tt> calls:
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            <b>
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        If <tt>
              <b>A</b>
            </tt> is a scalar
        <tt>
              <b>mtlb_false(A)</b>
            </tt> may be replaced by <tt>
              <b>zeros(A,A)</b>
            </tt>
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            <b>
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            </b>
        If <tt>
              <b>A</b>
            </tt> is not a scalar
        <tt>
              <b>mtlb_false(A)</b>
            </tt> may be replaced by <tt>
              <b>zeros(A)</b>
            </tt>
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    <p>Caution: <tt>
        <b>mtlb_false</b>
      </tt> has not to be used for hand coded functions.</p>
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      <font color="blue">Authors</font>
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        <b></b>V.C.</dd>
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